What if I had it to do again? Would I change anything or not?
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Engaging the whole university for Christ
Are we going to treat the campus as a whole as our mission field? What if Christ really, truly engaged the whole university? This is a great, bold and magnificent vision. May we be worthy of it. — Terence C.Read more…
Christian Engagement in the Renewing of Higher Education
May you be inspired as Santa Ono, Ph.D., the President of the U. of Cincinnati, gives testimony to how his life has been and continues to be shaped by his relationship with God and the people of God (including members of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) in relationship to the wider culture — even in the “small city” of the university and the intricacies of family dynamics.Read more…
The Challenge of ESN’s March Madness
What a joy to have Micheal Hickerson return to the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) blog to share The Best Christian Book of All Time: One Year Later (2/13/2014). A slam dunk. Thank-you Mike! I pray that many of you have been and continueRead more…
Engaging the University
Ready to get serious about Engaging the University? Then let’s return to Vinoth Ramachandra, who serves on the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) Senior Leadership Team as Secretary for Dialogue & Social Engagement. Engaging the University: Vinoth Ramachandra from IFES World. What does EngagingRead more…
A Dialogical Campus Ministry
“I’m still waiting to read a scientific paper that gives a biological explanation of the emergence of biological science among us human beings, also a naturalist account of what motivates people to become evolutionary psychologists and why others are impressedRead more…
A Mission to the University: Part 2 of Engaging the University
Part 2 of Vinoth Ramachandra‘s Engaging the University (21:22) is packed. After exploring the broad topics of funding’s push toward instrumentalism, the fragmentation of campus academic life by global communication, and the lack of “any coherent master narrative for a central point of reference .Read more…
A Mission to the University: Part 1 of Engaging the University
“Dr. Ramachandra is a theologian and an activist whose work engages with the context of his native Sri Lanka, a country whose long conflict has often been drawn along ethnic and religious lines, and his familiarity with student networks in AsiaRead more…
A Mission to the University: Henry Martyn Centre
Listening to the introduction of the 2012 Henry Martyn Lectures, delivered by Dr Vinoth Ramachandra, spurred my curiosity with regard to: Who is Henry Martyn? What is his relationship to the subcontinent? How come there is an active centre and library at Cambridge, which now hasRead more…
A Mission to the University
Do Christ followers have a mission in, to, and alongside the university? Yes. Is the university a global mission worth significant investment of time, resources, and energy? Yes. How do we embrace, engage, and give voice to the university mission?Read more…